Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 23:31:15 -0600 From: dannyman <djhoward@uiuc.edu> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, julian@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netatalk port broken? Message-ID: <19980223233115.13191@urh.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980224001312.5759D-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>; from John Fieber on Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 12:17:56AM -0500 References: <19980223231140.58014@urh.uiuc.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980224001312.5759D-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 12:17:56AM -0500, John Fieber wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, dannyman wrote: > > > > ...or find some convenient thing you can test with an #ifdef in the > > > code and make new patch... > > > > suggestions? i'm a clueless newbie. i just know how to make and apply > > patches, not how to get a port to conditionally apply patch. (if i have > > time I may surf FreeBSD documentation though ... :D) > > The patch isn't conditionally applied, the code has preprocessor > conditionals in it based on some define either ferreted out of some include > that provides evidence of the FreeBSD version, or specified by a -D on the > command line compiling the file. > > See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/porting.html for hints about checking > the freebsd version during compilation. In particular, the > __FreeBSD_version define would be appropriate here. AHHH! Are you suggesting then, that the code that the patch is derived from should compile conditionally? I'll try to take a look at it later this week! :) -- //Dan -=- This message brought to you by djhoward@uiuc.edu -=- \\/yori -=- Information - http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/djhoward/ -=- aiokomete -=- Our Honored Symbol deserves an Honorable Retirement To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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